Attention Please: Call for Open Panels for the 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
If you are interested in organizing an open panel for this congress
and look for paper presenters, you are kindly requested to send the title and
summary (up to 300 words) to the General Secretary of the congress, Amke
Dietert (amke.dietert@googlemail.com) before 15 March 2021.
The call for papers for open panels will then be forwarded via EURAMES and DAVO-Info-Service
to more than 6000 scholars who should send their paper proposals directly to
the organizer of the specific panel until 15 May 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
Please find also the following announcements:
CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Seminar: “The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War,
and Radical Islamists” by Stephen J. King (Georgetown University), SOAS Middle
East Institute, 2 March 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
2.
ONLINE conférence: « Les facultés de médecine de
Beyrouth à la fin de la période ottomane, entre modernisation et
impérialismes » de Chantal Verdeil, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des
sociétés du monde musulman, 2 mars 2021, 18h30 – 20h GMT+1
3.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Echoes of Violence and their Deployment in Israel and the Diaspora”
by Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 2
March 2021, 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST
4.
ONLINE
Book Presentation: “Building Politics: Urban Transformation and (Un)Making
Markets in Istanbul and Cairo” by Sarah El-Kazaaz, Department of Politics and
International Studies, SOAS London, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT
5.
ONLINE
Seminar: "Egypt, Democracy, and Revolution: A Reappraisal” by Mona El-Ghobashy,
Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, 3
March 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
6.
ONLINE
Lecture: “First Ladies of Authoritarianism: Regimes as Joint Accounts in the
Arab World” by Mustafa Menshawy, University of Durham, 3
March 2021, 3:00 pm GMT
7.
ONLINE Discussion by Alexandre Caeiro and Nathan Brown on "The
Government of Pearling: A Social History of Law in the Arabian Gulf
(1860-1950)", 4 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
8.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Feminist Art in the Middle East and Turkey”, British Institute at
Ankara and Council for British Research in the Levant London , 4 March 2021,
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
9.
ONLINE
One-Day Colloquium: “Qur’ān Translations and Interpretations by European
Muslims”, ERC Project “The European Qur’ān, 1150-1850” (EuQu), University of
Amsterdam, 5 March 2021, 9:00 am CET
10. ONLINE Workshop: “The Muslim Memories of
Europe: Circulations and Politics of Remembrance”, Centre d’Histoire de
Sciences Po, 5 March 2021, 9:30 am CET
11. ONLINE Book Talk: “Women of the Midan” by
Sherine Hafez, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 5 March 2021,
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
12. ONLINE Panel: “Space, Place, and Global Ottoman
Institutions” Organized by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU
(OTS-NYU), 5 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST
13. ONLINE Colloquium: "Say What Your Longing
Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran", Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, 5 March 2021, 3:00 pm MST
14. ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of
Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces",
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2:
12 March 2021, 2:00 pm PT
15. Annual Lecture 2021: “The Apartheid Paradigm”
by Professor Raef Zreik, Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS London, 5 March
2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
16. ONLINE Seminar: “Ten Years after the Arab
Spring: Assessing the State of Human Rights and Democratization in the Arab
World”, Arab Center Washington DC, 11 March 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
17. ONLINE Zahra Institute Lecture: “The Kurdish Medrese in Republican Turkey: An
Institution of Civil Society Caught Between Turkish State and Kurdish Political
Movement” by Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University), Chicago, 11 March
2021, 2:00 pm EST
18. ONLINE Lecture: "Kings and Clerics in
Modern Iranian History" by Prof. Abbas Amanat (Yale University),
Department of Middle East Studies, USC, 13 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST
19. ONLINE 6th Annual Conference on
Shi´i Studies, Islamic College, London, 13 March 2021
20. ONLINE Panel on “Well-being and Living
Well: Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Disability in Contemporary
Jordan," ACOR Jordan, 16 March 2021, 7:00 pm EET
21. ONLINE Panel: “Queer Studies: Activism in the
Middle East”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March 2021,
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
22. ONLINE Conference "Trans/Formations in
Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits", Columbia University,
Preliminary Discussion: 19 March 2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June
2021; Second Session: 14-17 October 2021
23. ONLINE International Workshop: “The Umayyads
from West to East: New Perspectives”, RomanIslam – Center for Comparative
Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, 22-23 March 2021
24. ONLINE Conference: “Qur’an and Bible”, ERC
Project “The European Qur’an”, University of Notre Dame, 22-26 March 2021, 3:00
pm – 5:00 pm CET
25. ONLINE Seminar: “On Origin Myths and
Genealogical Imagination: The Marginalization of Yemen’s Black Community” by
Gokh Amin Alshaif, Department of History at Brandeis University, 24 March 2021,
11:00 am EST
26. ONLINE Conference: “The Tudeh Party of Iran at
80: A Critical Re-Appraisal and Re-Evaluation”, School of History and Institute
for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews, 29 March – 1 April 2021
27. Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and
the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
28. ONLINE Conference: “Iran and Global
Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los
Angeles, 20-21 May 2021
29. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet
University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
30. ONLINE 7th International
Graduate Conference on "Materiality In the Eastern Mediterranean
World", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Central European
University (Vienna/Budapest), 28-29 May 2021
31. Workshop and Publication of the Economic
Research Forum on "Mitigation and Adaptation to Impact of Climate Change
in MENA Countries", June 2021 (Date to be Announced)
32. International Conference: "Musical
Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period",
Ruhr-University Bochum, 10-12 June 2021
33. ONLINE Special Panel on "Religion and
International Studies: An Outdated Topic or a Topic in Fruition?" during
the "International Conference of the British International Studies
Association [BISA]", 21-23 June 2021
34. Workshop “Nature and Political Order(s):
Exploring Environmental Politics, Climate Futures, and Decarbonisation in the
Middle East”, during the "8th European Workshops in
International Studies", University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 30 June – 3
July 2021
35. ONLINE International Society for the Sociology
of Religion 36th Conference: “Religion in Global/Local Perspective:
Diffusion, Migration, Transformation”, 12-15 July 2021
36. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of
Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
37. ONLINE Workshop "Rewiring the House of
God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment (iFaith)",
Universities of Birmingham, Erfurt and Graz, 15-17 September 2021
38. International Colloquium: "Itinerant
Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in
the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam",
Paris, 16-18 Septembre 2021
39. 27th International Congress of
the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic
Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
40. Third NEHT Workshop on "Environmental
Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World: The Anthropocene: From Empire
to Nation-States", University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021
41. International Workshop: "Religion as
an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives
(Including Middle East)", University of Leipzig, 4-5 November 2021
42. Workshop: “Turkey in/for (Global) International
Relations”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 25-26 November 2021; ONLINE Follow-Up
Workshop: 19-20 March 2022
43. 3rd ANU Religion Conference:
“Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University,
Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
44. Conference: "Ties of Kinship and the
Early Islamic Empire (622-1500 CE)", Leiden, 6-8 December 2021
POSITIONS
45. Post-doctoral Researcher for Project “The
European Qur’ān: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion
(1150-1850)”, University of Nantes
46. Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social
Sciences, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University
47. Tenure Track Position in Mediterranean History,
Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa
48. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa
Center for Mediterranean History (2021-2023)
49. Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern North African History,
Loyola University Maryland
50. One-Year Visiting Assistant Professorship
in Arabic Studies, Arabic Studies Department at Williams College, Williamstown
(MA)
51. Post-Doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
52. Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York
OTHER
INFORMATION
53. Short-Term Fellowships for Young Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt,
Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des
sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)
54. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
55. ONLINE Short Course: “Discussing Islamic Art, Aesthetics, and
Visuality”, Oxford International Collaboration Centre, Azad University Oxford,
9 March – 8 April 2021, Two Sessions per Week on Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00
pm – 5:15 pm GMT
56. ONLINE Course: "Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology",
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London,
23-24 April 2021, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT
57. Spring School on “Spoken Images of/in Islam:
Languages and Translations in Texts and Images”, Innovative Training Network
“Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and European Network for Islamic
Studies (ENIS), Catania (Sicily), 5 – 9 July 2021
58. ONLINE or IN-CLASS: "Ottoman Turkish
Summer School": Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for
International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5
July –
27 August 2021
59. ONLINE Residence Program in Advanced Arabic
Language and Social Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Fall Semester
2021
60. Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in 21st-Century
Media” for Special Issue of “Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and
North African Migration Studies”
61.
Articles on "Theoretical an Experimental Issues in Arabic
Linguistics" for Special Issue of "Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic
Language and Literature", Department of Arabic Language and Literature,
University of Haifa
62. Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on
the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Harvard University (Vol. 39,
2022)
63. Articles on "Business People in War
Times and Alternative Economies and Exchange during Armed Conflicts (in the
MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle
East-ern Studies"
64. Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims
and National Development in Postcolonial Ghana”
65. Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims
and Societies in Africa" (Including Arab Muslims of North Africa),
University of Abuja
66.
Chapters for Edited Book on "Übersetzerforschung in
der Türkei II" for Series "Germanistik in der Türkei"
67. Chapters for Edited Volume on "Social
Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing in the Modern Middle East & North
Africa"
68. Contributions on “Infrastructures and Society
in (Post-)Ottoman Geography” for “TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research”
69. Muteferriqa: Full-text Search in Ottoman
Turkish Periodicals
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the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University
of Sharjah
CONFERENCES / ONLINE
EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Seminar: “The Arab Winter: Democratic
Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists” by Stephen J. King (Georgetown
University), SOAS Middle East Institute, 2 March 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Tracing the period of the Arab Spring from its background in long-term
challenges to autocratic regimes, to the mass uprisings, authoritarian
breakdown, and the future projections and requirements for a democratiz-ing
conclusion, Stephen J. King establishes a broad but focused history which
refines the leading theory of democratization in comparative politics, and
realigns the narrative of Arab Spring history by bringing its dif-fering
results to the fore.
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2.
ONLINE conférence: « Les facultés de médecine de
Beyrouth à la fin de la période ottomane, entre modernisation et
impérialismes » de Chantal Verdeil, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des
sociétés du monde musulman, 2 mars 2021, 18h30 – 20h GMT+1
Si vous souhaitez accéder à la visioconférence merci de
bien vouloir rejoindre la salle en renseignant votre nom et choisissant
"écoute seule" à l'adresse https://webconference.ehess.fr/b/bil-kca-tri
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3.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Echoes of Violence and their Deployment in Israel and the Diaspora”
by Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 2
March 2021, 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST
This
seminar will explore violence in communal memory and its place in modern
politics. It doesn’t seek to blame specific individuals or groups. Rather, the
seminar suggests what might today be the redemptive power of critical
self-assessment.
Information: https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/campus-programs/faculty-seminars
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4.
ONLINE
Book Presentation: “Building Politics: Urban Transformation and (Un)Making
Markets in Istanbul and Cairo” by Sarah El-Kazaaz, Department of Politics and
International Studies, SOAS London, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT
Challenging
the notion that redistributive politics have disappeared in a neoliberalizing
Middle East, El-Kazaaz argues that neoliberalization has shifted rather than
decimated the terrain upon which redistributive struggles are unfolding.
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5. ONLINE Seminar: "Egypt, Democracy, and Revolution: A
Reappraisal” by Mona El-Ghobashy, Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, 3 March 2021,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Based on her forthcoming book, "Bread and
Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation", the author will map out the
political conflicts powering Egypt's interregnum of 2011-2013. Coming to terms
with what these struggles were about will further our understanding of both
democratization and revolution.
Information and
registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ilSS-3-HSl2j7UdZ-Lc_Bw
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6.
ONLINE
Lecture: “First Ladies of Authoritarianism: Regimes as Joint Accounts in the
Arab World” by Mustafa Menshawy, University of Durham, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm
GMT
This presentation, which is part of a bigger project based on
analysing texts and interviews conducted over the past two years, examines the
roles, powers and identities of wives as key actors dually stabilizing and
de-stabilizing their husbands as authoritarian leaders. The project reconsiders
the role of leader’s wife and positions her as a more autonomous partner or
holder of the joint account of authoritarianism alongside the authoritarian
husband.
Information: https://bit.ly/3r159cx
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7. ONLINE Discussion by Alexandre Caeiro and
Nathan Brown on "The Government of Pearling: A Social History of Law in
the Arabian Gulf (1860-1950)", 4 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
The scholars will discuss the legal regulation of the
pearl trade; the effects of British attempts to re-organize the pearling
industry and reshape the legal systems of the Gulf sheikhdoms; and the
relationship between "ruler's courts", "merchants' courts,"
and "Islamic courts.”
Information
and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/calendar_event/the-government-of-pearling/
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8.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Feminist Art in the Middle East and Turkey”, British Institute at
Ankara and Council for British Research in the Levant London , 4 March 2021,
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
This
webinar will showcase the latest debates and scholarship on modern and
contemporary feminist art practices and histories from the Middle East and
Turkey. The panellists will share their perspectives on feminist art in Syria,
Turkey and Palestine.
Information: http://cbrl.ac.uk/event/feminist-art-in-the-middle-east-and-turkey
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9.
ONLINE
One-Day Colloquium: “Qur’ān Translations and Interpretations by European
Muslims”, ERC Project “The European Qur’ān, 1150-1850” (EuQu), University of
Amsterdam, 5 March 2021, 9:00 am CET
This
event aims to foster existing collaborations of the team at the University of
Amsterdam (UvA) with the project members, as well as to facilitate knowledge
exchange with other scholars working on similar topics outside the EuQu.The
discussion will focus on Qur’an translation and interpretation practices
adopted by Muslims in different regions of wider Europe, as well as on
Muslim-Christian interactions brought aboutbythose translation activities.
Please register in advance.
Information: https://euqu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Program-Quran-translations-and-interpretations-with-logos.pdf
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10. ONLINE Workshop: “The Muslim Memories of
Europe: Circulations and Politics of Remembrance”, Centre d’Histoire de
Sciences Po, 5 March 2021, 9:30 am CET
This
workshop brings together historians whose fields of study are located throughout
Europe and whose research invites to approach from a new angle the place hold
by Muslims and Islam in European memories from the Renaissance to the present
day. It thus proposes to go beyond a caricatured and artificial distinction
made between "Europe" and "Islam".
Information and programme: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7332126/muslim-memories-europe-circulation-and-politics-remembrance
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11. ONLINE Book Talk: “Women of the Midan” by
Sherine Hafez, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 5 March 2021,
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Bringing Arab women to the center of the historical narrative of
the “Arab Spring”, this book draws on accounts by Egyptian women who witnessed
the realities of the revolutionary period that began on 25 January 2011 and
continue to this day. Based on interviews collected over a five-year period
with women from various backgrounds, classes and religious background, this
current publication aims at redressing the imbalance of a male historical gaze
that obscures women.
Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/sherine-hafez-book-talk-women-midan
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12. ONLINE Panel: “Space, Place, and Global Ottoman
Institutions” Organized by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU
(OTS-NYU), 5 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This
panel will explore key social and political spaces and institutions present
throughout the Ottoman Empire. Panelist Topics will include: the Ottoman
household as the structural heart of Ottoman social, political, economic, and
military organization; the importance of the Bosnian Islamic Community as a model
modern Islamic Institution; questions relating to the royal and viceregal
property ownership during the long nineteenth century.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOyqqzstHd3NCHaR19Fbme-1PaBPY03K
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13. ONLINE Colloquium: "Say What Your Longing
Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran", Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, 5 March 2021, 3:00 pm MST
The
Center for Middle Eastern Studies invites participants to attend virtual event
on the usage of classical poetry, spirituality of namaz, the temporality of
performing a ritual, and the role of language in constructing a relationship
with God.
Information: https://cmes.arizona.edu/events/haeri
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14. ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of
Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces",
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2:
12 March 2021, 2:00 pm PT
This two-part workshop addresses minorities and minority-formation in
the art, architecture, and urbanism of the Middle East and North Africa through
time. A major goal is to consider the role of visual, spatial, and material
cultures in mediating minor cultural formations. Another aim is to recognize
the complex, varied terrain of interactions between minorities and majority
cultures: to emphasize instances of transfer, exchange, and participation that
challenge the binary of assimilation and opposition.
Information and registration: Part 1 https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/the-making-of-minorities-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-objects-images-spaces-part-1;
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15. Annual Lecture 2021: “The Apartheid Paradigm”
by Professor Raef Zreik, Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS London, 5 March
2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
The
speaker will offer an interpretation regarding the recent increase in the
deployment of the Apartheid paradigm to describe the current reality in
Palestine-Israel. He will reflect on its meaning and significance as well its
potential to alter the political imagination that guides our perception of the
political reality there.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei-cps/events/05mar2021-cps-annual-lecture-2021-the-apartheid-paradigm.html
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16. ONLINE Seminar: “Ten Years after the Arab
Spring: Assessing the State of Human Rights and Democratization in the Arab
World”, Arab Center Washington DC, 11 March 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Speakers:
Mozn Hassan (Executive Director and Founder, Nazra for Feminist Studies); Amy
Hawthorne (Deputy Director for Research, Project on Middle East Democracy);
Marwan Muasher (Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace); Liz Sly (Beirut Bureau Chief, The Washington Post); Sarah
Leah Whitson (Executive Director, Democracy for the Arab World Now).
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17. ONLINE Zahra Institute Lecture: “The Kurdish Medrese in Republican Turkey: An
Institution of Civil Society Caught Between Turkish State and Kurdish Political
Movement” by Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University), Chicago, 11 March
2021, 2:00 pm EST
Martin
van Bruinessen is professor emeritus of the comparative study of contemporary
Muslim societies at Utrecht University. He carried out anthropological field
research in all parts of Kurdistan in the mid-1970s and has been returning to
Kurdistan more or less regularly ever since. The social and political role of
religion has been a central concern of his research.
Information: http://www.zahrainstitute.org/news_and_events.html
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18. ONLINE Lecture: "Kings and Clerics in
Modern Iranian History" by Prof. Abbas Amanat (Yale University),
Department of Middle East Studies, USC, 13 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST
This is a part of the Iranian Studies Initiative Annual Distinguished
Lecture Series arranged by the USC Department of Middle East Studies.
Information and registration: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yCHea1iwRly2ToYcyGp27g
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19. ONLINE 6th Annual Conference on
Shi´i Studies, Islamic College, London, 13 March 2021
This
conference provides a broad platform for scholars in Shi´i studies to share
their latest research on any aspect of Shi´i studies.
Information: https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/shiistudies/conference/
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20. ONLINE Panel on “Well-being and Living
Well: Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Disability in Contemporary
Jordan," ACOR Jordan, 16 March 2021, 7:00 pm EET
Jordan has undergone dramatic demographic shifts over a few short
generations, offering ethnographers opportunities to examine how categories of health,
normality, and difference—and structures of access, power, and inequality—shape
everyday life. Three early-career scholars will reflect on medical anthropology
and disability anthropology in Jordan and the broader region.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxrQ1O_8SKiORLnXEMNhFw
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21. ONLINE Panel: “Queer Studies: Activism in the
Middle East”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March 2021,
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
The
panel will engage with both the “Kohl” special issue on queer
feminisms and Ghassan Moussawi’s book, Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and
Queer Strategies in Beirut, as part of a wider discussion on Queer
Studies and activism with reference to the Middle East. Hosted by Nadje Al-Ali,
Director of the Center for Middle East Studies.
Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/queer-studies-activism-middle-east
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22. ONLINE Conference "Trans/Formations in
Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits", Columbia University,
Preliminary Discussion: 19 March 2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June
2021; Second Session: 14-17 October 2021
We
invite scholars to explore a plethora of thematic issues tied to the challenges
of mapping, reconstructing, and studying varied sets of Arabic literary
theoretical frameworks with the aim of identifying cross-temporal and
trans-local conceptualizations and terms for a genealogy of Arabic literary
theory.
Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/
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23. ONLINE
International Workshop: “The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives”,
RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies,
Universität Hamburg, 22-23 March 2021
Deadline
for registration: 18 March 2021. Programme: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8b856123/Workshop-Umayyads-poster-program.pdf
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24. ONLINE Conference: “Qur’an and Bible”, ERC
Project “The European Qur’an”, University of Notre Dame, 22-26 March 2021, 3:00
pm – 5:00 pm CET
This
workshop will explore the changing ways in which Medieval and Early Modern
Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers relate Biblical literature and Qur'an. How
did medieval and early modern readers assess the relationship between the two
scriptures? How did they account for narrative parallels as well as the
differences they found in them?
Information and programme: https://euqu.eu/2021/02/08/international-workshop-quran-and-bible/
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25. ONLINE
Seminar: “On Origin Myths and Genealogical Imagination: The Marginalization of
Yemen’s Black Community” by Gokh Amin Alshaif, Department of History at
Brandeis University, 24 March 2021, 11:00 am EST
Gokh
Amin Alshaif will examine the origin myths and racialized genealogical
imagination at the root of Black Yemenis’ (known as Muhamasheen)
marginalization. She will discuss the ways in which some Yemenis deploy
imagined genealogies to justify the Muhamasheen's status and construct the
categories of "Arab" and "Black" as mutually exclusive.
Finally, she will explore acts of resistance by Muhamasheen activists today and
their struggle to reclaim power over naming and genealogy.
Information: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1NgKuKcrSFOzuTjEj37Bdw
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26. ONLINE
Conference: “The Tudeh Party of Iran at 80: A Critical Re-Appraisal and
Re-Evaluation”, School of History and Institute for Iranian Studies, University
of St Andrews, 29 March – 1 April 2021
This conference seeks to explore the various
dimensions of the Tudeh Party from its inception in 1941 to the present era. It
aspires to focus on both the party’s political evolution through decades of
upheaval in Iran and exile in Europe, as well as the impact of the Tudeh on the
Iranian arts, literature and cultural scenes.
Information: bit.ly/3iD8idy. Contact: tudehconference2021@gmail.com
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27. Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
Papers will examine the relationship between China
and the Middle East, both ancient and modern, and incorporate additional regions,
such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia.
Information: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/news/call-papers-rethinking-narratives-china-and-middle-east
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28. ONLINE
Conference: “Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and
University of California, Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021
The
symposium invites scholars whose work investigates Iran’s experiences with
colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of perspectives – including
race and ethnicity; foreign relations; intellectual history; social and
economic networks; as well as cultural studies – to answer questions such as:
What role did decolonization play in Iran’s interactions with the Global South?
How did Iran respond to decolonization movements? Etc.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/30/iran-and-global-decolonization-call-for-papers
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29. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet
University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
Topics include: •
Linguistics • Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography •
Philosophy • Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political
Theory • Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ,
ḥawāshī, taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.
Information:
http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php
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30. ONLINE 7th International
Graduate Conference on "Materiality In the Eastern Mediterranean
World", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Central European
University (Vienna/Budapest), 28-29 May 2021
We welcome approaches that focus on the relations between humans and
their physical surroundings, the way they understand, perceive, and use them.
Moreover, in turning towards the material, the conference intends to explore
connections and entanglements between human/non-human, spiritual/physical, and
phenomenological/epistemological.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 April 2021. Information:
https://cems.ceu.edu/cems-graduate-conference-2021
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31. Workshop and Publication of the Economic
Research Forum on "Mitigation and Adaptation to Impact of Climate Change in
MENA Countries", June 2021 (Date to be Announced)
The
MENA countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change disasters and
their consequences, their heavy dependence on natural capital and the
environment for survival and prosperity, and the limited adaptive capacities of
these countries to environmental shocks. Proposals can be cross-country or
focused on a single country.
Information: https://erf.org.eg/call-for-proposals-mitigation-and-adaptation-to-impact-of-climate-change-in-the-mena-region/
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32. International Conference: "Musical
Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period",
Ruhr-University Bochum, 10-12 June 2021
Papers will focus on Arabic, Persian and Byzantine music theory,
instruments and ways of transmission, with their roots in Ancient Greece and an
outlook onto Ottoman and Safavid music. Call for Papers closed. Guests are
welcome!
Information: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/orient/aktuelles/index.html.en
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33. ONLINE Special Panel on "Religion and
International Studies: An Outdated Topic or a Topic in Fruition?" during
the "International Conference of the British International Studies
Association [BISA]", 21-23 June 2021
We
welcome submissions from politics, religious studies, anthropology, sociology,
security studies, geopolitics, area studies, and related fields on any country
or region. Our working group seeks to bring together scholars working in this
field to examine all aspects of the crossroad of religion and international
studies.
Information: https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers and www.hahellyer.com/RAISCall
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34. Workshop “Nature and Political Order(s):
Exploring Environmental Politics, Climate Futures, and Decarbonisation in the
Middle East”, during the "8th European Workshops in
International Studies", University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 30 June – 3
July 2021
Workshop
Convenors: Cemal Burak Tansel (University of Sheffield) & Jan Wilkens
(University of Hamburg). MENA constitutes a crucial mobilisation space in which
assumptions about energy transition, resource exploitation and contesting
notions of just futures shape political struggles. This workshop seeks to
advance theoretical debates in IR, IPE and environmental and climate research
by focusing on the politics in the region.
Contact: jan.wilkens@uni-hamburg.de. Information: https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2021/
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35. ONLINE
International Society for the Sociology of Religion 36th Conference:
“Religion in Global/Local Perspective: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation”,
12-15 July 2021
Global
migration, labor mobility and travel lead to the diffusion of religion, but
also to the questioning of religious boundaries and their potential
transformation. The difference between religion, spirituality, culture, and
nonreligion become themselves diffuse and even blurred. People feel, rediscover
and redefine their religious and non-religious horizons in new ways through
their everyday lives. This conference highlights the transnational, global and
local character of these issues and aims to explore the nature of religious
diffusion, encounters, and transformation.
Deadline
for abstracts: 28 February 2021. Information: https://conference-system.sisr-issr.org/conferences/conference-2021/#papers
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36. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of
Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
Besides
the European powers that established their colonial hegemony in the MENA
region, the conference will also deal with the influence of countries, such as
the United States of America and Germany, which extended their influence
through diplomacy, financial and military aid, and education.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April
2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6160235/empire-middle-east-and-maghreb-shaping-hopes-and-perspectives
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37. ONLINE Workshop "Rewiring the House of
God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment (iFaith)",
Universities of Birmingham, Erfurt and Graz, 15-17 September 2021
The
workshops seeks to engage with scholarly works concerned with 'digital
religion', mediatization of religion, and religion on the Internet. The
workshop will examine the mutually transformative relationship between digital
technologies and contemporary modes of religiosity.
Deadline for abstracts extended to 2
April 2021. Information: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/universitaet/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender/eventdetail/rewiring-the-house-of-god-religious-self-world-relations-in-the-digital-environment
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38. International Colloquium: "Itinerant
Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in
the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam",
Paris, 16-18 Septembre 2021
This colloquium will seek to grasp the itinerant figures: the prophets
of the pre-modern Arab world, between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, between
sacred model and familiar figure of popular literature, between mythical
authority and historical hero. It will welcome proposals devoted to Islamic
Studies, literary or historiographical approaches, as well as those that explore
the continuities and discontinuities between these different fields.
Deadline for abstracts in French, English
or Arabic: 26 March 2021. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2021/01/LES-PROPHETES-ITINERANTS-Appel-a-contributions.pdf
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39. 27th International Congress of
the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic
Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
Papers are invited from scholars of all relevant disciplines in social
sciences and humanities who are engaged in research on the contemporary Middle
East, North Africa, and the entire Islamic World and its relations to other
regions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
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40. Third NEHT Workshop on "Environmental
Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World: The Anthropocene: From Empire
to Nation-States", University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021
The workshop
will discuss the ways of integrating the concept of the Anthropocene into the
field of Ottoman/post-Ottoman environmental history. It will open a space for
analysing the role of human activities in transforming the Ottoman/post-Ottoman
landscapes in the age of the Anthropocene.
Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021/
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41. International Workshop: "Religion as
an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives
(Including Middle East)", University of Leipzig, 4-5 November 2021
We are especially interested in the global presence and characteristics
of religion as an object of study in the History of Religion; Comparative
Religious Studies; Sociology; Anthropology and Political Science (excluding
Theology and Philosophy). Central questions concern the place, status and
history of research on religion in these disciplines.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/religion-as-an-object-of-historical-and-social-scientific-study-global-perspectives/
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42. Workshop:
“Turkey in/for (Global) International Relations”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt,
25-26 November 2021; ONLINE Follow-Up Workshop: 19-20 March 2022
The
goal of the workshop is to generate a new body of scholarship that locates
Turkey within (Global) International Relations (IR), bringing together studies
that are publishable in the form of a special issue and/or an edited volume. We
aim at deparochializing IR via provincializing it: by localizing it in
empirical, theoretical, and historical ways, using the case of Turkey and its
(possible) contributions in this regard to advance the agenda of Global IR.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/97833926/
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43. 3rd
ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”,
Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
Forms
of human movement including global immigration, asylum-seeking, climate
migration, and the internal migration accompanying mass urbanisation, have
radically altered religious cultures around the world, especially in the
Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this conference is to explore the various
phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social transitions
impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary communities.
Deadline for
abstracts: 21 May 2021.
Information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
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44. Conference: "Ties of Kinship and the
Early Islamic Empire (622-1500 CE)", Leiden, 6-8 December 2021
We are interested in exploring how and when the language of kinship was
implemented as a persuasive device, an operative category, and a
problem-solving mechanism in premodern Islamic(ate) societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire/
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POSITIONS
45. Post-doctoral Researcher for Project “The
European Qur’ān: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion
(1150-1850)”, University of Nantes
Each candidate should propose an original, innovative research project
on an important aspect of the role played by the Qur’ān in Medieval and Early
Modern European culture and should be fluent in English and French and have
strong skills in other languages appropriate to their research topics.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/postdoc-european-qurn-nantes?e=82aeb6c61d
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46. Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social
Sciences, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University
Requirements: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences or other
relevant degrees; relevant teaching experience at the graduate level;
specialization in the Gulf and Middle East Region; proficiency in Arabic and
English is required.
Deadline for applications: 6 March 2021. Information: https://careers.qu.edu.qa/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_EID_VIS_INTG_GATEWAY&p_action=viewPosting&p_svid=15374&p_spid=755153&p_srid=450188
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47. Tenure Track Position in Mediterranean History,
Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa
We
encourage applications from candidates with distinct interests in medieval
and/or early modern Mediterranean history and with proven academic excellence
in their fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in
Mediterranean studies, and a fully-developed Mediterraneanist approach guiding
their research. The candidate should be firmly rooted within the historical
discipline, with openness to other fields of knowledge in the social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 31 July
2021. Information: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/index.php/opportunities-for-researchers/tenure-track-positions
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48. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa
Center for Mediterranean History (2021-2023)
We are looking for candidates able to demonstrate proven academic
excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive
background in Mediterranean studies. We encourage applications from candidates
working in all related fields. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the beginning of
the fellowship tenure period, and no longer than five years.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. Information:
https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/apply-two-year-post-doctoral-fellowship-at-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-2021-23?e=82aeb6c61d
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49. Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern North African History,
Loyola University Maryland
The
History Department at Loyola University Maryland invites applications for a
one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and North African
history, with the possibility of a renewal. Ph.D. in hand and teaching experience
preferred.
Deadline
for applications: 15 March 2021. Information: https://careers.loyola.edu/postings/5271?source=JobTarget%20via%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences%20Online%20-%20H-Net&utm_source=JobTarget&utm_medium=Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences%20Online%20-%20H-Net&utm_campaign=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Middle%20Eastern%20and%20North%20African%20History%20(1213-5271)&_jtochash=wykmJAHEEadmsmxOHgJpV&_jtocprof=sC_3bWvTFN0Mvo9NZ6KwfAKecfhsQnBf
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50. One-Year Visiting Assistant Professorship
in Arabic Studies, Arabic Studies Department at Williams College, Williamstown
(MA)
Candidates should have native or near-native fluency in Arabic; provide
evidence of demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching of the Arabic
language; and hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field by the beginning of their
appointment on 1 July 2021.
Applications
should be submitted by 1 March 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/83612
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51. Post-Doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
The successful applicant must have the doctorate in hand by the start of
the fellowship (25 August 2021), but be no more than seven years beyond the
granting of the PhD.
The deadline
for applications: 1 March 2021. Information: https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/cnyepprd/GUEST/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=22123&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
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52. Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York
One-year
appointment, beginning fall semester 2021. The successful candidate should have
expertise in a field of broad concern to peace and conflict studies, including
but not limited to: regional or transnational conflict, gendered conflict,
ethnic or religious conflict, racialized policing/violence, etc. We welcome
applicants with disciplinary training in sociology, anthropology, political
science, international relations, international studies, history, or geography.
Review
of applications will begin on 26 March and continue until the position is
filled. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18202
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OTHER
INFORMATION
53. Short-Term Fellowships for Young Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt,
Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des
sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)
FMSH and UNIMED offer short-term fellowships of 2 or 3 months in France for young
researchers native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine,
Tunisia and Syria and affiliated to one of the 133 Universities with
membership in UNIMED. This research stay is designed to enable researchers to
conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work.
Deadline for
applications: 15 March 2021. Information: https://www.fmsh.fr/en/international/30667
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54. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
The award recognizes and seeks to foster innovative and groundbreaking
scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will
support a post-doctoral scholar working on a book project in any field of the
humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. Information: http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/cpsfellowships/ibrahim-abu-lughod-award
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55. ONLINE Short Course: “Discussing Islamic Art, Aesthetics, and
Visuality”, Oxford International Collaboration Centre, Azad University Oxford,
9 March – 8 April 2021, Two Sessions per Week on Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00
pm – 5.15 pm GMT
This
10 sessions of this courseule will introduce the artistic culture of Islam from
the viewpoint of its aesthetics and meaning. It is conceptualized like a forum
for both learning and appreciating the rich and beautiful arts of Islam so that
the audience will get a sense of what these arts mean and express for the
Muslim faithful.
Information: https://www.oicc.uk/k-event/discussion_islamic_art/
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56. ONLINE Course: "Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to
Codicology", Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan
University, London, 23-24 April 2021, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT
This introductory course is intended for students, researchers and
librarians who are working in the field of manuscript studies. The lecturers
will cover a wide range of aspects for those who are acquiring basic knowledge
in this field.
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57. Spring School on “Spoken Images of/in Islam:
Languages and Translations in Texts and Images”, Innovative Training Network
“Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and European Network for Islamic
Studies (ENIS), Catania (Sicily), 5 – 9 July 2021
The main
objective is to investigate the image–text relations in Muslim traditions by
applying to different genres of images and texts and by thinking about how they
are affected by translation or interpretation. The Summer School will bring
together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with
doctoral and MA students.
Deadline
for application: 1 April 2021. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/49942
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58. ONLINE or IN-CLASS: "Ottoman Turkish
Summer School": Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for
International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5
July –
27 August 2021
The
summer school is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular
activities such as seminars by top scholars on Turkish history, politics,
literature, and art; cultural events, and, field trips to historical sites and
archives.
Deadline
for applications: 29 May 2021. Information: https://oss.ihu.edu.tr/languages-program/
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59. ONLINE Residence Program in Advanced Arabic
Language and Social Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Fall Semester
2021
The program
meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and
heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural
skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic
areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic.
Deadline
for application: 31 May 2021.
Information
and registration: https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/ra88et51c17saf/
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60. Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in 21st-Century
Media” for Special Issue of “Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and
North African Migration Studies”
This
special issue seeks scholarly contributions that engage with questions related
to the main theme through analyses of representations in local, national, or
transnational contexts, both in the Global North and South. We welcome topics
including but not limited to examinations of otherness, statelessness, self-representation,
cultural citizenship, diasporic activism, and aesthetics of representation.
Deadline for articles:
15 March 2021.
Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/23
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61. Articles on "Theoretical an Experimental
Issues in Arabic Linguistics" for Special Issue of "Al-Karmil:
Studies in Arabic Language and Literature", Department of Arabic Language
and Literature, University of Haifa
Articles are
invited on: Phonology and morphology; Grammar of Classical and Modern Standard
Arabic; Semantics and pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics;
Discourse analysis; Syntax of the Qurʾān, written in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2021.
Information: http://alkarmil.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/instruction-for-authors
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62. Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on
the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Harvard University (Vol. 39,
2022)
Muqarnas publishes articles on art, architectural history, and
archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures,
historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter
submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for
which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary
sources.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information:
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/muqarnas
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63. Articles on "Business People in War
Times and Alternative Economies and Exchange during Armed Conflicts (in the
MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle
East-ern Studies"
Given that capital flight constitutes one of the most important
dimensions of wars and conflicts and influences considerably the current course
of the (post-) conflict processes, this special issue aims to analyze displaced
business peoples' economic activities and their motivations in general for
engagement in their places of origin and the host countries.
Deadline for full texts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://ormer.sakarya.edu.tr/4,3,,208,call_for_papers_in_turkish_journal_of_middle_eastern_studies.html
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64. Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims
and National Development in Postcolonial Ghana”
The chapters will focus on Muslims’ contributions to the fields of
education, health, politics, economics, and international relations, among others.
They could focus on either biography of Muslim figures and/or religious and
non-religious institutions, issues on interreligious dialogue including NGOs
and CBOs that critically highlight the place and engagements of Muslims in
different development sectors in postcolonial Ghana.
Deadline for
abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: Holger Weiss, Abo Akademi University, Turku,
Finland, Holger.Weiss@abo.fi
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65. Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims
and Societies in Africa" (Including Arab Muslims of North Africa),
University of Abuja
To what extent has the Muslim life been resilient or influenced by
colonialism and globalisation? What is the extent of conformism or dissonance
from the various constructs that determine Muslim identity. How does being a
Muslim matter in the social, political and economic spheres of African
societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7149932/muslims-and-societies-africa
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66.
Chapters for Edited Book on "Übersetzerforschung in
der Türkei II" for Series "Germanistik in der Türkei"
In the chapters the life and / or works of translators who translate
from Turkish to a foreign language or from a foreign language to Turkish are
discussed.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7175074/cfp-%C3%BCbersetzerforschung-der-t%C3%BCrkei-ii
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67. Chapters for Edited volume on "Social
Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing in the Modern Middle East &
North Africa"
This volume will illustrate how the study of medicine, disease, and
healing reveal new aspects of the region’s history during the era prior to and
during European imperialism, and during the era of 20th century
state-building and decolonization.
Deadline
for abstracts: 1 June 2021. Information: https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/25/cfp-social-histories-of-disease-medicine-and-healing-in-the-modern-me-na/
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68. Contributions on “Infrastructures and Society
in (Post-)Ottoman Geography” for “TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research”
We invite contributions to discuss and
investigate how infrastructures shape and affect power relations and daily
life; how they produce or organize inequalities, discrimination, or
differentiated access to public goods and services; and how they may become
part of state violence, or resistance, in Ottoman and post-Ottoman geographies.
Information: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/26811
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69. Muteferriqa: Full-text Search in Ottoman
Turkish Periodicals
Muteferriqa, by Miletos, is a search engine for Ottoman Turkish printed
documents. It provides a full-text search for all printed documents
(newspapers, journals, books). It features all the bells and whistles of a
modern search engine. When complete, Servet-i Fünûn Collection will include
over 1100 issues of the periodical, spanning the years 1891-1926 covering TUFS
Hakkı Tarık Us Digital Collection's said title.
Information: http://muteferriqa.com/en/
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